CALL FOR PAPERS Cross-Language Knowledge Induction Workshop International Workshop held as part of the Eurolan 2005 Summer School 25 July - 6 August, 2005, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Website: http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~diana/Eurolan2005KnowledgeInductionWorkshop.htm Knowledge of words and text behavior in other languages has recently been used to help solving tasks in a first language. An example of such a task is word sense disambiguation by using translations in a second language. Another example is verb classification by studying properties of verbs in several languages. A second modality of knowledge transfer across languages is to take advantage of resources already built for English and for a few other resource-rich languages. These resources have been used to induce knowledge in languages for which few linguistic resources are available. This was made possible by the wider availability of parallel corpora (better alignment methods at paragraph, sentence, and word level). Examples of knowledge induction tasks are: learning morphology, part-of-speech tags, and grammatical gender. The development of wordnets for many languages used as a starting point knowledge transfer from the Princeton WordNet. This workshop will provide a forum for discussion between leading names in the field and researchers involved in cross-language applications. We would like to invite researchers, master and Ph.D. students, to submit their original and unpublished work to the workshop. Special consideration will be given to papers for which one of the languages involved in the knowledge transfer is an East-European language. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * applications that exploit parallel corpora (aligned at paragraph, sentence, or word level). * induction of knowledge from a language for which resources are abundant to another language for which fewer resources are available. * using other languages to solve a task in a first language: - word-sense disambiguation by using translations in other languages. - verb classification by studying verb properties in several languages. - other tasks of this kind * identifying and using cognate words between languages. * building wordnets by knowledge transfer. * exploiting multi-language wordnets for NLP applications. ============================================== Submission Requirements Authors are invited to submit a 4-6 pages extended abstract in electronic form (pdf only) by 5th of May 2005. Authors of accepted papers should submit the final version in electronic format not later than 20th of June. The final version must be in pdf format. If you have problems delivering your paper in pdf format, please contact the organizing committee. We can assist you with converting from Word format into pdf format. If your paper is a ps file, please convert into pdf and make sure all the fonts are included. The maximum length of the paper should be 8 pages. This workshop uses the same guidelines as ACL-2005. The instructions can be found at http://www.aclweb.org/acl2005/index.php?stylefiles. Please do not insert page numbers, headers or footers. If you have any problem following the style please contact the organizing committee as soon as possible. All the papers should be sent to diana@site.uottawa.ca ============================================== Important Dates Submission Deadline: 5th May 2005 Notification of Acceptance: 5th June 2005 Camera-ready Papers: 20th June 2005 Demos of working or under development systems are encouraged. ========================================== Registration People wanting to attend the workshop must be registered at the Eurolan 2005 School (http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/eurolan2005). Participation to the workshop is open to all Eurolan 2005 attendants. Copies of workshop proceedings will be made available. Authors of the papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will benefit of early registration fee no matter the date they register. ========================================== Programme Committee Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain) Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Saarbrucken, Germany) Silviu Cucerzan (Microsoft Research, US) Mona Diab (Columbia University, US) Lluis Marquez (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain) Joel Martin (National Research Council of Canada) Rada Mihalcea (University of North Texas, US) Viviana Nastase (University of Ottawa, Canada) Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, Duluth, US) Emanuele Pianta (ITC-IRST, Povo-Trento, Italy) Philip Resnik (University of Maryland, US) Laurent Romary (LORIA, Nancy, France) Michel Simard (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France) Suzanne Stevenson (University of Toronto, Canada) Amalia Todirascu (Technological University of Troyes, France) Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania) Nikolai Vazov (University of Sofia, Bulgaria) Organizing committee Diana Inkpen (University of Ottawa, Canada) Carlo Strapparava (ITC-IRST, Povo-Trento, Italy)